Health and social care professionals' competencies have traditionally been separated
because of the different aims of the two professions. These competencies need to be …

This chapter explores the history, practice, relevance, and components of public health
social work. Beginning with an overview of health social work within the contemporary …

Purpose Collaboration between creative professionals (artists and designers) and
companies has become more prominent. In so-called “crossovers,” indicated with the …

Interprofessionalism is an approach to delivering optimal client care in which providers from
multiple professions work collaboratively on care teams. Human Service Professionals …

This study explores interprofessional collaboration for holistic client care within the helping
disciplines. Specifically, the experiences of behavioral health, nursing, dental hygiene …

Collaboration is now frequently required among representatives of myriad disciplines to
intervene more effectively in complex community and public health problems. A fundamental …

This perspective provides a rationale for redesigning and a framework for expanding the
graduate health science analytics and biomedical doctoral program curricula. It responds to …

This chapter examines how the increasing push towards inter-professional collaboration
might impact on professional identity in social work, using the recently created …

This essay supports coalition building as an important form of organizing for social change.
Traditional grassroots and single organizational models of change are insufficient to tackle …

This pilot study explores an interprofessional, practice-based education initiative that placed
students from four different professions (medicine, nursing, social work, and pharmacy) in a …